Assessing Social Equity in Disasters

Natural hazard impacts and resources allocated for risk reduction and disaster recovery are often inequitably distributed. New research is developing and applying methods to measure these inequities.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Eos

• Publication date

  2021-02-23

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1029/2021EO154548
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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